dip into savings

dip into (one's) savings

To take money from one's savings account in small amounts. When my car broke down, I had to dip into my savings to pay for all of the repairs.
See also: dip, saving
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

dip into one's savings

Fig. to take out part of the money one has been saving. (See also dip in(to something).) I had to dip into my savings in order to pay for my vacation. I went to the bank and dipped into savings. There wasn't much left.
See also: dip, saving
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • dip into (one's) savings
  • little and often fills the purse
  • just wondering
  • (I am/was) just wondering.
  • (I am/was) only wondering.
  • pay (for something) through (something)
  • pay through
  • penny saved is a penny earned
  • penny saved is a penny earned, a
  • a penny saved is a penny earned
References in periodicals archive
For people contemplating retirement on a limited income, the idea of keeping a large family home to accommodate grown offspring compels them to dip into savings or stay in the workforce longer than they'd like.
COUNCIL bosses have agreed to dip into savings to plug a gap in education spending next year.
Being able to dip into savings brings with it many new risks, from paying too much tax to being scammed out of life savings and running out of money too soon.
Even so, the Irwins believe they'll have to dip into savings to pay college bills, and the money might come from selling stocks they feel have become overvalued.
And while 44 per cent of people pay the cost from their monthly salary, 26 per cent dip into savings - and 22 per cent turn to their credit card.
Yet they spend $25,000 - about 179 percent of what they make - on necessities such as food and housing, which means they have no cushion at all for medical emergencies and are forced to either borrow money or dip into savings to cover such costs, CNN found in an analysis of the BLS data last year.
They dip into savings, get money from family, inheritance.
households -- 47 percent -- say they spend all of their income, go into debt or dip into savings to meet their annual expenses, according to an analysis of Fed survey data released Thursday by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
So for the first time in nearly two decades, they are more likely to dip into savings than to add to them, BNP Paribas analysts forecast.
"You don't want to dip into savings more than you have to," she said in an interview with ThinkAdvisor.com.
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It would also have a painful personal impact on workers affected -- leaving them to dip into savings or delay mortgage payments, monthly car loan bills and other spending.
* Don't dip into savings. Scott says it's tempting having immediate access to his checking account.
Thirty-six per cent of UAE residents would dip into savings to keep them going, 18 per cent would move into a smaller home and 14 per cent would ask friends and family for help.